Contemporary Aspects of Extremism and Its Security Challenges

Abstract

With a different violent forms and sorts, extremism continued progress in the 21'st century. Regardless sources that encourage it, violent extremism goes beyond national and regional borders and gets global tendencies. Waves of current violent religious extremism, have gained more importance with the spread of terrorism, especially because of the prominent impact on global security. Understanding of modern terrorism is not separated from the violent extremism and radicalization, which are considered as incentives for terrorism. The consistency of these security challenges is confirmed through their presence at all levels, from national and regional, to global security. The fact is that terrorism, violent extremism and radicalization are present in national security policies, as major challenges for security which need to be more efficient opposed. Reflection of the global challenges of spreading violent extremism and radicalization as an incitements for terrorism is quite present in the Western Balkans region. All Western Balkans countries have experienced these challenges, especially during the most dangerous phase of conflicts in Syria and Iraq 2012-2017, due to the participation of Balkan fighters in their battlefields.